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Bug#702093: marked as done (busybox-udeb: please enable the 'date' applet)

Your message dated Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:48:30 +0000
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and subject line Bug#702093: fixed in busybox 1:1.22.0-5
has caused the Debian Bug report #702093,
regarding busybox-udeb: please enable the 'date' applet
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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20130211
Severity: wishlist

There does not seem to be any way to set the system time manually in the
(expert, text-mode) installer. The "Configure the clock" selection
allows setting it from NTP (but my firewall blocks it), but I can't find
any way to set the time by hand.

Even from the shell prompt, the only way I could find was an ugly
workaround. The closest binaries I found were:

 - /sbin/hwclock from busybox, but it does not have a way to specify the
   time manually (only to read and write hardware RTCs)

 - /usr/bin/rdate can read the time from the network but not from the
   user

Just for reference in case someone else encounters this problem before
it is fixed and needs the ugly workaround: I used nc to emulate an rdate
server as follows:

1. On another already-installed Debian system, run:
   # printf '%x\n' $(expr $(date +%s) + 2208988800)
   (the magic number is from RFC 868, seconds from 1900 to 1970)

2. This gave me "d4dc4f85". Convert this to be suitable for echo, start
   a shell on one virtual console in the Debian installer, and run:
   # echo -e '\xd4\xdc\x4f\x85' | nc -l -p 37

3. To set the system time, start another shell on a second virtual
   console in the installer and run:
   # rdate -v -o 37 127.0.0.1
   (I had to use -o 37 because of bug #702061.)

4. Verify by running:
   # logger test
   and checking that the time on the last line in the syslog displayed
   in virtual console 4 has the correct time (it's in UTC).

In the past, before I found this workaround, I had installed a couple of
embedded systems ending up having file dates in the 1980s, because
that's what the hardware RTC happened to be set to by default, and the
BIOS/bootloader did not have a way of changing it...

I have two suggestions for fixing this bug:

 - Please include the "date" command in busybox in the initrd to allow
   setting the system time from the command line.

 - If the user answers "No" to the NTP question in the installer menus,
   please consider adding a dialog that shows the current time and asks
   the user for a new time if it is wrong. (Possibly also ask about
   writing the new time to the RTC using hwclock.)

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Source: busybox
Source-Version: 1:1.22.0-5

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
busybox, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 702093@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (supplier of updated busybox package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:06:42 +0100
Source: busybox
Binary: busybox busybox-static busybox-udeb busybox-syslogd udhcpc udhcpd
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1:1.22.0-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
Description: 
 busybox    - Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems
 busybox-static - Standalone rescue shell with tons of builtin utilities
 busybox-syslogd - Provides syslogd and klogd using busybox
 busybox-udeb - Tiny utilities for the debian-installer (udeb)
 udhcpc     - Provides the busybox DHCP client implementation
 udhcpd     - Provides the busybox DHCP server implementation
Closes: 702093 740397
Changes: 
 busybox (1:1.22.0-5) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Team upload
 .
   [ Michael Tokarev ]
   * enable (apparently forgotten) lzop applet for regular and static builds
   * support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=N (Closes: #740397)
   * support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck to skip testsuite run
   * enable date applet for udeb flavour too (Closes: #702093)
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